Abstract

The inspection of a key by an expert mark examiner covers evaluation of technological traces, presumption of origin, falsification related mark examinations, search marks of duplicator and sampler equipment, as well as identification, recognition of shape characteristics and therefore decoding. The author on the basis of his several decades of experience demonstrates that a vehicle key belonging to a car is the most important safeguarding gadget, what kind of marks it may bear, and how it could be read in the aspect of forensic tool mark examination.

Highlights

  • In accordance with crimes against property it is often important to find out the way the loca- tion was approached and the method the lock was operated on by the perpetrator

  • Lock examination is interconnected to key examination, which occasionally determines the result of lock examination, because it might be necessary to examine the adapted and used keys to clarify the circumstances of the illegal lock opening

  • Key duplication and its circumstances are the focus of the fo- rensic key examination. This kind of key examination has importance when it is necessary to investigate and to verify widely the illegal lock operation, whether during the examined occurrence the perpetrator could have used a duplication of the key and the sampling source of this duplication could have been one of the keys in proper use. These examina- tions are related to vehicle theft, discussing certain issues of key examination is based on vehicle keys

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Introduction

In accordance with crimes against property it is often important to find out the way the loca- tion was approached and the method the lock was operated on by the perpetrator. Key duplication and its circumstances are the focus of the fo- rensic key examination This kind of key examination has importance when it is necessary to investigate and to verify widely the illegal lock operation, whether during the examined occurrence the perpetrator could have used a duplication of the key and the sampling source of this duplication could have been one of the keys in proper use. These examina- tions are related to vehicle theft, discussing certain issues of key examination is based on vehicle keys

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